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Source

Jefferson County Historical Society

Identifier

"JCHSV900090"; "MJCPLriver0028"

Notes

The "Princess" has a front row seat for the 1910 Madison Regatta. The "Princess" was sister to the "Island Queen" in the Coney Island trade. She was built in 1900. During the terrible winter of 1917-1918 she was wintering at the mouth of the Kentucky River. On January 31, 1918 the Madison Courier reported, "The Princess a Total Loss-The ice gorge at the mouth of the Kentucky River gave way at 2 o'clock this morning and the steamers that were trapped in the floes were carried down the river to a point 2 miles above Brooksburg where they remain imprisoned today. The wreck of the elegant excursion steamer Princess was carried down with the other boats and the steamer is now a complete loss." On February 2nd the paper reported, "The pilot house of the "Princess" floated very close to the Indiana shore but the great wall of shore ice prevented any effort being made to get it."